X-Original-To: pgsql-advocacy-postgresql.org@postgresql.org Received: from localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.208.251]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6CD029FB227 for ; Wed, 30 Aug 2006 14:22:55 -0300 (ADT) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.208.251]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 56531-02-2 for ; Wed, 30 Aug 2006 14:22:48 -0300 (ADT) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey- Received: from mailbox.samurai.com (mailbox.samurai.com [205.207.28.82]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 491D99FA4A5 for ; Wed, 30 Aug 2006 14:22:47 -0300 (ADT) Received: from localhost (mailbox.samurai.com [205.207.28.82]) by mailbox.samurai.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 238C561CAC; Wed, 30 Aug 2006 13:22:46 -0400 (EDT) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at mailbox.samurai.com Received: from mailbox.samurai.com ([205.207.28.82]) by localhost (mailbox.samurai.com [205.207.28.82]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id ZSoF3wAtG9qn; Wed, 30 Aug 2006 13:22:43 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [192.168.1.139] (204.11.229.99.static.etheric.net [204.11.229.99]) (using TLSv1 with cipher RC4-MD5 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mailbox.samurai.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34DDB61C86; Wed, 30 Aug 2006 13:22:43 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: PostgreSQL rebranding From: Neil Conway To: Ron Mayer Cc: Lukas Kahwe Smith , pgsql-advocacy@postgresql.org In-Reply-To: <44F55F67.6030407@cheapcomplexdevices.com> References: <44F3F0EC.2080709@pooteeweet.org> <44F55F67.6030407@cheapcomplexdevices.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2006 10:22:41 -0700 Message-Id: <1156958562.5291.15.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.029 tagged_above=0 required=5 tests=AWL, SPF_HELO_PASS, SPF_PASS X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 200608/192 X-Sequence-Number: 9656 On Wed, 2006-08-30 at 02:50 -0700, Ron Mayer wrote: > Sun's "Thumper" [1] arguably counts at least as much as Netezza does, > in that they're both hardware appliances derived more or less from PostgreSQL. As I understand it, Thumper runs Bizgres MPP, so it probably doesn't count as a distinct Postgres derivative. ExtenDB[1] is another company with a proprietary extension of PostgreSQL. And as David mentions elsewhere in the thread, I can personally confirm that Amalgamated Insight[2] are using PostgreSQL. -Neil [1] http://www.extendb.com/pr81.php [2] http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-07/msg01310.php